Candide by Voltaire

Candide

Voltaire with Tobias Smollett (Translator)

116 pages first pub 1759 (editions)

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Dr. Pangloss, to prove the existence of design in the universe, says that noses were made to carry spectacles, and so we have spectacles. A modern satirist would not try to paint with Voltaire's quick brush the doctrine that he wanted to expose. A...

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